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TiENPAY Limited is a financial technology firm that offers a global digital mobile wallet, clearance and settlement platform, which has launched its T8Coin ICO. The ICO will fund the company's development of a blockchain-based royalty disbursement platform. In concert, TiENPAY is launching a fully licensed digital currency exchange in Hong...

DetectorToken, a Polish-based blockchain start-up is the creator of a bot software called ‘Bot Detector’, which automates the process of guiding new investors to make profitable investments and trading decisions. The bot provides users with reliable market information that allows them to stay up-to-date and be informed about the latest...

Enigma, a company building a machine-based investing platform and infrastructure for crypto-assets, suffered a serious setback on Monday (21st August 2017) when vulnerabilities in the security of its website and some social media accounts were taken advantage of by criminals to launch a phishing attack targeting potential investors in the...

Founders of OPSkins, a marketplace for trading video game virtual items or assets, have formally unveiled Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX), a new blockchain-based decentralized platform for virtual exchanges. This news comes ahead of its upcoming token sale in mid-October 2017, with a detailed announcement slated for September. WAX is a...

Decentralized entertainment industry creator SingularDTV has announced a new collaboration with Centrality, a venture production studio based in Auckland, New Zealand. Centrality has a blockchain applications platform and provides programming and development solutions as well as go-to-market strategies for blockchain start-ups. Centrality employ 40 fulltime programmers and currently have 12...

Frost & Sullivan's global TechVision’s team has found that blockchain technology is being looked into by technologists in order to resolve security concerns that surround the implementation of an Internet of Medical Things. In order to give medical patients the ability to choose the therapy that best suits them, better...

ATMChain Foundation, a foundation sponsored by Jiangsu Huaxin Blockchain Research Institute of China (JBI), has acquired 7.5 million shares of RFintech for a total consideration of EUR 15 million. RFintech and ATMChain will collaborate in the development of the next generation distributed ledger technology, starting with ATMChain's ‘blockchain+media’ platform. ATMChain...

Multi-asset digital wallet, Jaxx and Cofound.it, the global platform for establishing cryptocurrencies and crowdsale best practices, have announced a partnership to enhance the growth of digital currencies. The partnership will help to identify, support, and promote the best and most innovative projects in blockchain space. Projects approved by Cofound.it will...

Po.et, a new protocol designed to accelerate solutions for the digital media industry utilizing blockchain technology and timestamped metadata, has announced a partnership with Blink, a global content studio, to fully automate the licensing requests from a global network of over 25,000 photographers, filmmakers and writers across more than 180...

Rivetz Intl. has announced an advisory agreement with Parity Technologies Ltd (formerly known as Ethcore), the blockchain core technology company and creator of the Parity Ethereum software, to improve cyber security on the blockchain. Parity Technologies will guide Rivetz on the integration of cyber security controls into blockchain networks and...

Global blockchain specialist firm ConsenSys has announced the launch of the first cohort of its ConsenSys Academy Developer Program on August 1st, 2017. The ConsenSys Academy Developer Program is an blockchain training program designed to provide more blockchain developers for the growing industry. The program begins with Phase1 - an...

The open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, Hyperledger has announced that 10 new organizations have joined the project. The project also announced the availability of Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, the consortium's first production ready blockchain framework announced last month. Hyperledger incubates several business blockchain and distributed ledger...

Decentraland, a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain in which users can create, discover, experience, and monetize content and applications, has announced a crowdsale for its ERC-20 token MANA. MANA will let users buy and sell virtual real estate, called LAND, and participate in Decentraland’s virtual reality economy....

Energy-focused blockchain investment fund, Solar DAO has announced the dates for its two-stage ICO crowdfunding campaign. Both the Pre-ICO and ICO will raise funds which the company will invest into constructing a new PV solar plant. The preliminary ICO will take place between the 27th of July 2017 and the...

A new market intelligence report by BIS Research, titled 'Blockchain Technology in Financial Services Market - Analysis and Forecast: 2017 to 2026', has reached the conclusion that the application of blockchain could lead to a per-year cost savings of $6-8 billion in KYC/AML, $30-40 billion in trade finance, and $50-60...

Hyperledger, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, has announced the general availability of Hyperledger Fabric 1.0. Hosted by The Linux Foundation, Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework implementation and is intended as a foundation for developing blockchain applications, products or solutions. Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director at Hyperledger,...

Ciao Group, Inc. has announced plans for an Initial Currency Offering as part of its recently revealed Blockchain Frontier Markets Project, which has been under development over the past year with a specific initial target of bringing increased liquidity to USD$530 billion in African publicly traded company market capitalization. Last...

Quantoz, the company providing professional services to explore emerging blockchain technologies and crypto-currencies, and to understand the potential impact for various industries, has announced a number of achievements that it has made over the past three months. One of the key developments the company announced was that, after nearly a...

London-based start-up Aventus has announced that it has developed a blockchain-based solution to prevent unregulated touting and counterfeit tickets. The company is attracting the attention of investors as it prepares to launch a token sale of its AventCoin (AVT), "the Bitcoin of the ticketing industry," which will be distributed to...